Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000 . By Geoff Eley. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) .
Foucault, Subjectivity, and Identity . By Robert Strozier. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002) .
Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action . By Albert O. Hirschman. Twentieth-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Robert H. Frank. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002) .     

BOOK NOTES

T. H. KEWLEY, Australian Social Security Today .
RUSSELL MATHEWS, Australian Federalism 1979 .
ALAN THOMAS, Broadcast and Be Damned .
RALPH PER VAN and CAMPBELL SHARMAN, Essays on Western Australian Politics .
DAVID DONNISON with PAUL SOTO, The Good City: A Study of Urban Development and Policy in Britain .
ROBERT ALBON (ed.), Rent Control, Costs and Consequences .
MICHAEL E. CORBY, The Postal Business, 1969-79: A Study in Public Sector Management .
Efficiency in Government Expenditure .
H. SADDLER and others, Public Choice in Tasmania .
ROBERT J. HAYNES, Organisation Theory and Local Government .
D. J. WALMSLEY, Social Justice and Australian Federalism
PETER RYAN, Redmond Barry, A Colonial Life 1813–1880 .
Directory to Commonwealth and State Government Services in South Australia .
Administrative Review Council , Fourth Annual Report.
RUTH ATKINS, Albany to Zeehan: A New Look at Local Governments .
Relations between Levels of Government .
Endowed Lectures, 1974–1979 .
Proceedings of the National Government Accounting Convention .     

Books: International Relations

D. Allen and A. Pijpers (eds), European Foreign Policy-Making and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1984)
Sydney D. Bailey (ed.), The Making of Resolution 242 (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1985
David Howard Bain, Sitting in Darkness, Americans in the Philippines (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984
C. Coker, The Future of the Atlantic Alliance (London, Macmillan, with the Royal United Services Institute, 1985)
C. Rose, Campaigns Against Western Defence (London, Macmillan, with the Royal United Services Institute, 1985)
G. R. Berridge and A. Jennings (eds), Diplomacy at the UN (London, Macmillan, 1958)
John Burton, Global Conflict: The Domestic Sources of International Crisis (Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books for The Center for International Development, University of Maryland, 1984)
B. J. C. Kercher and D. J. Moss (eds), Shadow and Substance in British Foreign Policy 1895–1939 (Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 1984)
D. Holloway and J. M. 0. Sharp (eds), The Warsaw Pact (London, Macmillan, 1984)
W. R. Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East 1945–1951: Arab Nationalism, The United States, and Postwar Imperialism (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984)
Brian Murphy, The World Wired Up: Unscrambling the New Communications Puzzle (London, Comedia, 1983)
Steve Smith (ed.), International Relations: British and American Perspectives (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, in association with the British International Studies Association, 1985)
I. Wallerstein, The Politics of the World Economy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
The Fateful Split: Catholics and the Royal Ulster Constabulary , by Chris Ryder. Methuen. 360pp. £17.99.
The IRA at War 1916–1923 , by Peter Hart. Oxford University Press. 290pp. £25.00.
Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas , by Richard Bourke. Pimlico. 462pp. £10.00 (pb).
War and Genocide, Organised Killing in Modern Society , by Martin Shaw. Polity. xii + 257pp. £15.99 (pb) and £55.00 (hb).
The Spectre of Genocide. Mass Murder in Historical Perspective , edited by Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan. Cambridge University Press. x + 396pp. £16.95.
New Labour's Pasts: The Labour Party and its Discontents , by James E. Cronin. Pearson Longman. 497 pp. £25.00
The Long Search for a Third Way—The British Labour Party and the Italian Left since 1945 , by Ilaria Favretto. Palgrave. 233pp. £47.50.
Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy , edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert. Routledge. xiv + 238pp. £ 65.00.
The Conservatives in Crisis: The Tories after 1997 , edited by Mark Garnett and Philip Lynch. Manchester University Press. 272 pp. £14.99.
Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History , James A. Marone. Yale University Press. xii + 575 pp. £25.00.
Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement. A Comparative Study of Amsterdam, London and Paris, 1870–1914 , by Karin Hofmeester. Ashgate. xv + 346 pp. £ 57.50.
In Search of Revolution. International Communist Parties in the Third Period , edited by Matthew Worley. I.B. Tauris. 400 pp. £45.00.
Cold War, Crisis and Conflict. The CPGB 1951–68 , by John Callaghan. Lawrence & Wishart. 320 pp. £14.99.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less , by Barry Schwartz. Harper Collins (USA). 266 pp. US$23.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895–1995 .
The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State , by Nicholas Timmins.
Party, Parliament and Personality , edited by Peter Jones. Routledge.
The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe , by Edmund Dell.
The Throw that Failed: Britain's 1961 Application to Join the Common Market , by Lionel Bell.
Mandarin: The Diaries of an Ambassdor, 1969–1982 , by Sir Nicholas Henderson.
The Failure and Future of British Democracy , by Andrew Marr.
World Orders, Old and New , by Noam Chomsky.
Economic Democracy: The Politics of Feasible Socialism , by Robin Archer.
Socialism after Communism: The New Market Socialism , by Christopher Pierson.
Intellectuals and Socialism: 'Social Democrats'and the Labour Party , by Radnika Desai.
Opening the Books: Essays on the Cultural and Social History of the British Communist Party , edited by Geoff Andrews, Nina Fishman and Kevin Morgan.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism . By Robert Gooding-Williams. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).
Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz . By Campbell Craig. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).
Hans J. Morgenthau und der weltpolitische Realismus . By Christoph Rohde. (Wiesbaden: Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2004).
'Society Must be Defended': Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976 . By Michel Foucault. Translated by David Macey. (New York: Picador, 2003).     

Book Reviews

The State, Business, and Industrial Change in Canada. By MICHAEL ATKINSON and WILLIAM D. COLEMAN.
Ethics in the British Civil Service. By RICHARD A. CHAPMAN.
Head of the Civil Service: A Study of Sir Warren Fisher. By EUNAN O'HALPIN.
The Ethics of Public Service: Resolving Moral Dilemmas in Public Organizations. By KATHRYN G. DENHARDT.
White House Ethics: The History of the Politics of Conflict of Interest Regulation. By ROBERT N. ROBERTS.
Maori, Pakeha and Democracy. By RICHARD MULGAN.
The Gatekeepers: Comparative Immigration Policy. Edited by MICHAEL C. LEMAY.
Perestroika Annual: Volume 2. Edited by ABEL G. AGANBEGYAN.     

Beyond the new look: Policy and operations in the Eisenhower administration

Saki Dockrill, Eisenhower's New‐Look National Security Policy, 1953–61 (London: Macmillan, 1996). Pp. xvi + 400, biblio, index. NP. ISBN 0–333–65655–5.

Erika Alin, The United States and the 1958 Lebanon Crisis (Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1994). Pp.160, biblio, index. NP. ISBN 0–8191–9332–1.

Audrey R. and George McT. Kahin. Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia (New York: Norton, 1995). Pp.318, index. £17.95. ISBN 1–56584–244–8.     

Resources: Left Listservs and Websites

Gerald Meyer, VITO MARCANTONIO: RADICAL POLITICIAN 1902–1954 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989)

Charney, George, A Long Journey (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968).

Gallagher, Dorothy. All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988).

Lader, Lawrence. Power on the Left: American Radical Movements Since 1946 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1979).

Lagumina, Salvatore J. “Case Studies in Ethnicity and Italo‐American Politicians.” The Italian Experience in the United States, eds. Silvano H. Tomasi and Madeline H. Engel. (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1970), pp. 143–61.

Luthin, Reinhard H. American Demagogues: Twentieth Century (New York: Peter Smith, 1954).

Mills, C. Wright; Senior, Clarence; and Goldsen, Rose Kohn. The Puerto Rican Journey: Newest Migrants (New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1950).

Naison, Mark. Communists in Harlem during the Depression (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983).

Riesman, David. Faces in the Crowd (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).

Rolle, Andrew. The Italian Americans: Troubled Roots. (New York: The Free Press, 1980).

Sasuly, Richard. “Vito Marcantonio: The People's Politician,” in American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities, ed. Harvey Goldberg (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957), pp. 115–59.

Schaffer, Alan. Vito Marcantonio, Radical in Congress (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1966).

Starobin, Joseph. American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Walzer, Kenneth. “The Party and the Polling Place: American Communism and an American Labor Party.” Radical History Review; 23 (Spring 1980), pp. 104–35.

Herbert G. Gutman, POWER AND CULTURE: ESSAYS ON THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, Ira Berlin, ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987)

Peter H. Rossi, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA: THE ORIGINS OF HOMELESSNESS (Chicago and London: University Of Chicago Press, 1989). Charles Hoch and Robert A. Slayton, NEW HOMELESS AND OLD: COMMUNITY AND THE SKID ROW HOTEL (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., Jeffrey Paul, John Ahrens eds. (Basil Blackwell, 1989), CAPITALISM and Jon Elster and Karl Ove Moene eds. ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM‐STUDIES IN MARXISM AND SOCIAL THEORY (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Michael Walzer, INTERPRETATION AND SOCIAL CRITICISM (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)

Andrew Gamble, THE FREE ECONOMY AND THE STRONG STATE: THE POLITICS OF THATCHERISM (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988)     

Change and Decay

Books reviewed:
Tivey, Leonard (edited by Robert Hazell). Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years
Seyd, Ben (edited by Robert Blackburn and Raymond Plant). The Politics of the British Constitution; Constitutional Reform: The Labour Government's Constitutional Reform Agenda
Klein, Rudolf (Bill Jordan). The New Politics of Welfare
O'Brien, David (edited by Dick Leonard). Crosland and New Labour
Parker, Noel (Maurice Keens-Soper). Europe in the World: The Persistence of Power Politics
Arnsel, Anja (Peter Gay). My German Question
Archard, David (edited by Richard Bellamy and Martin Hollis). Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality
Vosper, Susan Saunders (Robert Service). A History of Twentieth-century Russia
Garnett, Mark (Luisa Passerini). Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain between the Wars
Jenkinson, Sally L (Bruce Hoffman). Inside Terrorism     

Book Reviews

Classes and Cultures: England 1918–1951 (Ross McKibbin) Richard Hoggart
London Conference on Nazi Gold: Lancaster House, 2–4 December 1997 (Foreign and Commonwealth Office); Switzerland and Gold Transactions in the Second World War: Interim Report (Independent Commission of Experts on Switzerland in the Second World War); Nazi Gold: The British and Allied Attempts to Deal with Loot from the Second World War and the Implications for the Tripartite Gold Commission (Holocaust Education Trust); Ex-Enemy Jews: The Fate of the Assets in Britain of the Holocaust Victims and Survivors (Holocaust Education Trust); Nazi Gold: Information from the British Archives ; Nazi Gold: Information from the British Archives, Part II ; British Policy towards Enemy Property during and after the Second World War (Foreign and Commonwealth Office); Hitler's Secret Bankers: How Switzerland Profited from Nazi Genocide (Adam Lebor); Blood Money: The Swiss, the Nazis and the Looted Billions (Tom Bower); The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Financed the Nazi War Machine (Jean Ziegler, trans. John Brownjohn); The Rape of Europa (Lynn Nicholas); The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Seize the World's Greatest Works of Art (Hector Feliciano); Treasure Hoard: A New York Times Reporter Tracks the Quedlinburg Hoard (William H. Honan) Donald Cameron Watt
The Politics of Risk Society (edited by Jane Franklin); Social Policy and Social Justice (edited by Jane Franklin) Leonard Tivey
The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style (Tom Paulin) Mark Garnett
The Open Cage: The Ordeal of the Irian Jaya Hostages (Daniel Start) Donald Cameron Watt
The Search for Normality: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany since 1800 (Stefan Berger) Joyce Crick     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Jonathan Schneer, Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left 1945–51 .
Giovanni Sartori, The Theory of Democracy Revisited: Vol. 1 The Contemporary Debate, Vol. 2 The Classical Issues .
Dimitry V. Pospielovsky, A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer Vol. 1: A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Anti-Religious Policies .
Dimitry V. Pospielovsky, A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer Vol. 2: Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and Persecutions .
Franklin Presler, Religion under Bureaucracy: Policy and Administration for Hindu Temples in South India .
Christiane Hurtig, Les Maharajahs et la Politique dans I'Inde Contemporaine .
B. P. Singh, The Problem of Change: A Study of North East India .
Omar Noman, The Political Economy of Pakistan 1947–85 .
J. A. S. Grenville, The Major International Treaties 1914–1945 .
J. A. S. Grenville and Bernard Wasserstein, The Major International Treaties since 1945: A History and Guide with Texts .
Michael Freeden (ed.), J. A. Hobson: A Reader .
J. A. Hobson (Introduction by J. Townshend), Imperialism: A Study .
John Keane, Democracy and Civil Society .
John Keane (ed.), Civil Society and the State .
Geoffrey Palmer, Unbridled Power: An Interpretation of New Zealand's Constitution and Government .     

Book Reviews

Making Votes Count (Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts, Brendan O'Duffy and Stuart Weir)
Full Employment: A Pledge Betrayed (John Grieve Smith)
Broadcasting, Society and Policy in the Multi-media Age (Andrew Graham and Gavyn Davies)
The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978–1994 (Maurice Meisner)
China Against the Tide: Restructuring through Revolution, Radicalism and Reform (Marc Blecher)
Exits and Entrances: Political Research as a Creative Art (Lewis Minkin)
Christian Justice and Public Policy (Duncan B. Forrester)     

Book Reviews

The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite. By JAMES ALLEN SMITH.
The Political Failure of Employment Policy 1945–1982. By GARY MUCCIARONI.
The Politics of Public Spending in Canada. By DONALD J. SAVOIE.
The Organization of Hypocrisy. Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations. By NILS BRUNSSON.
Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking. By FRANK R. BAUMGARTNER.
Affirmative Talk, Affirmative Action: A Comparative Study of the Politics of Affirmative Action. By AUGUSTUS J. JONES, JR.     

The proper study of propaganda

Robert Jackall (ed.), Propaganda (New York University Press; London: Macmillan 1995) (Main Trends of the Modern World). Pp.xi + 449; index. $50 (cloth); $20 (paper). ISBN 0–8147–4196–7 and 4197–5 (US). 0–333–61756–8 and 61757–6 (UK).

Bertrand Taithe and Tim Thornton (eds.), Propaganda; Political Rhetoric and Identity (Phoenix Mill, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, Sutton, 1999). Pp.xi + 368, biblio. essay, footnotes, index. £50 (cloth); £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–7509–2028–9 and 2029–7.

Gary D. Rawnsley (ed.), Cold War Propaganda in the 1950s (New York, St Martin's Press; London: Macmillan 1999). Pp.xi + 246; endnotes, index. £45. ISBN 0–312–22012‐X (US) and 0–333–67591–7 (UK).

Francis Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta 1999). Pp.xi + 509, select biblio., endnotes, index. £20 (cloth); £9.99 (paper). ISBN 1–8620–7029–6 and 7327–9.

Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain's Secret Propaganda War, 1948–1977 (Phoenix Mill, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, Sutton, 1998). Pp.xi + 223, biblio., footnotes, index. £25. ISBN 0–7509–1668–0.

Esko Salminen, The Silenced Media: The Propaganda War between Russia and the West in Northern Europe (New York, St Martin's Press, London, Macmillan, 1999. Pp.xi + 198, biblio., endnotes, index. £45. ISBN 0–333–72451–8.     

The Complexity of 'Political Islamism'

Books reviewed
The Future of Political Islam , by Graham Fuller. Palgrave. 228pp. £19.99.
Secularism, Islam and Modernity: Selected Essays of Alam Khundmiri , edited by M. T. Ansari. Sage. 308pp. £29.99.
Law and Power in the Islamic World , by Sami Zubaida. I. B. Tauris. 248pp. £35.00.
Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power , by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr. Oxford University Press. 220pp. £33.99.
False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy , by Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Verso. cxxix + 661pp. £28.00.
Preachers of Hate: The Rise of the Far Right , by Angus Roxburgh. Gibson Square Books. 312pp. £18.99.
A Mandarin's Tale , by Roy Denman. Politico's. 282pp. £20.00.
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950–1957 , edited with an introduction by Peter Catterall. Macmillan. 676pp. £25.00.
Memoirs from the Left , by John Saville. Merlin. 197pp. £14.95 (pb).
Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East , by Vassilis Fouskas. Pluto Press. 177pp. £45.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb).     

The Permeability of Urban Cultures

Stephen Dovers (ed.): Australian Environmental History: Essays and Cases . Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Tim Flannery: The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of Australasian Lands and People . Chatswood, NSW: Reed Books, 1994. Distributed in the USA by George Braziller Inc., New York.

Stephen J. Pyne: Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia , New York: Henry Holt, 1991.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Decline of the Public: The Hollowing-Out of Citizenship , by David Marquand. Polity. 176pp. £45 and £14.99.
Endgames and New Times: The Final Years of British Communism 1964–1991 , by Geoff Andrews. Lawrence & Wishart. 264 pp. £15.99.
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire , by Niall Ferguson. Allen Lane. 384 pp. £20.
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City , by Tristram Hunt. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. pp. 432. £25.
From Bevan to Blair: Fifty Years Reporting from the Front Line , by Geoffrey Goodman. Pluto Press. 286 pp. £18.99.
Obscure Scribblers: A History of Parliamentary Journalism , by Andrew Sparrow. Politico's. 238 pp. £20.
The New Labour Reader , edited by Andrew Chadwick and Richard Heffernan. Polity. 352 pp. £17.99 and £60.00.
The Progressive Manifesto. New Ideas for the Centre-Left , edited by Anthony Giddens. Polity. 224 pp. £14.99.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States , by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. Norton & Co., 2004. xviii+567 pp. £6.99.
The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics , edited by John D. Carlson and Erik C. Owens. Georgetown University Press. xvii+284 pp. £19.50.
Free World: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of our Time , by Timothy Garton Ash. Allen Lane. 308 pp. £ 17.99.
William Pitt the Younger , by William Hague. HarperCollins. 652 pp. £25.     

Shorter notes

John B. Dwyer, Seaborne Deception: The History of the U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers (New York: Praeger, 1992).

A.B. Feuer (ed.), Coast‐watching in the Solomon Islands: The Bougenville Reports, December 1941–1943 (New York: Praeger, 1992).     

Drafting the BOLERO Plan

This year marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the D-Day invasion, when Allied forces crossed the English Channel and established beachheads along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast in northern France. Troops overcame stiff resistance and systematically moved inland, liberating Northern Europe and forcing the surrender of Germany and the end of World War II in that part of the world.
The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, but its planning began more than two years earlier. This case studies the strategic planning that led up to the invasion. The Operations Division of the War Department General Staff, formerly known as the War Plans Division, was the principal staff agency of the U.S. Army high command during World War II. The story focuses on the Operations Division's role in formulating a strategic plan for ending the war as well as Operation BOLERO—the American military troop buildup in Great Britain that preceded the cross-channel invasion.
By reprinting this case from the original U.S. Army historical record, PAR pays tribute to the brave men and women who planned and executed this bold maneuver, many of whom paid the ultimate price to achieve victory and restore freedom. Popularized as the "Greatest Generation," they were ordinary people who answered the call of public service with extraordinary bravery and sacrifice. Members of the modern-day public administration community proudly stand on their shoulders.
This chapter-length excerpt is taken from Ray S. Cline, Washington Command Post: The Operations Division (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1951), chapter IX, "Case History: Drafting the BOLERO Plan," pp. 143–63.